Casting can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be...Balls are relatively simple...I get my led from the dentist, it comes in the pack that they put in your mouth when they x-ray your teeth...I remove the sheet lead from these packs and melt in a muffin tin to make ingots...I melt my lead on a old Coleman stove and when casting I simple use a can that crushed tomatoes came in (I think its 16 oz)...I bought a ladle, a cheap spoon with holes in it to remove flux and have a .395 and a .530 Rapine mold...I set up outside on my workmate, melt the lead, flux with SnoSeal and cast....I do wear a long sleeve shirt, jeans, work boots and gloves...When one mold gets too hot, I switch to the other...In an hour or two I can cast 100 balls....